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Of course my first impulse when I heard him say, 'My girlfriend is so pretty', I wanted to sprout wings and fly to the moon. I'm sure only a minute or two went by, but it sure as hell felt like I remained mute for the length of conversation.
It turns out that the days following our first date were full of extraordinary moments of honesty and letting people in and fear and facing your emotions and telling other people what you really think. None of these things has ever been my forte. But it has been wonderful.
To detail the actual feelings would be too heavy for even the most devoted readers, and, besides, they're more or less contained in the narrative of this blog. So I'll sum up: significant, marvelous, affectionate, all mixed up together.
I'm excited and nervous and terrified and full of hope and doubt. I wish there were a way on the computer to dot the "i"s in "likes" with hearts.
And with that, you're all current. So far, this story has no ending.
It's just to be continued.
November 29, 2010
The Frenchman: Part II
Of course my first impulse when I heard him say, 'My girlfriend is so pretty', I wanted to sprout wings and fly to the moon. I'm sure only a minute or two went by, but it sure as hell felt like I remained mute for the length of conversation.
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November 25, 2010
The Frenchman: Part I
There is a reason posting has been irregular of late.
I don't quite know how to say this. It has certainly come as a shock to me. I considered trying to ease into the news, but all my efforts in that course proved useless. So I'm just going to give it to you straight, as it were. I met someone!
About two weeks back I was forced to make it to my company's annual party, with every intention of leaving the venue before noon.
I realize that the words "I cannot stay another minute at this party," "I hate it here," make no sense to my bunch of colleagues who I hang out with. And yet they're absolutely smart, every one of them.
Since my plan of bailing out of event was by no means secure, I settled down in despair, most importantly not recovering the mind that I had obviously lost.
The one small mercy in that day's event was that I got my eyes settled on a rather amusing foreigner, (a Frenchman) who I thought had entered the wrong party, which meant that I was sitting down and belting out comments every 5 minutes. The problem was that he was working for the same company I was, just out of a different building. Hence, I hadn't seen him before. And he also happened to have a friend who was a part of my audience. Yeah, after I got to know that piece of news, five minutes of silence and embarrassment seemed like an eternity.
I met him a few minutes later as he smiled and shook my hand. I stuttered about how nice it was to meet him that I wanted to put my eyes out with a carving fork.
The days following our meeting he has asked my friends about me and then finally picked up the phone and asked me out on a date. It would have been a little braver of me if I answered him by not pitching my voice higher.
Baby steps, Eve. Baby steps.
Stay tuned, in any case, for my next post of Drink Poison, Drink Poison, Explode with Joy.
I'll be the one drinking poison.
There are days when it's hard to comprehend the impressive talent that was The Cure. I'm not sure the world will ever see another front man that literally owns the audience in the way that Robert Smith could. I'm not even sure it's possible anymore. All that aside this is a fairly awesome track of The Cure titled 'Lovesong'.
To the Frenchman
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November 16, 2010
The past week was so exhausting. Overworked. And dragged myself around the office this morning. Needed tea. And writing.
The worst thing about the past week was pulling a 14 hour day at our company's annual showcase on Thursday, and then realizing that I needed to be at work the next day all bright and early.
The best thing about last week – I had many seemingly successful interactions with human males. Haha. That rocked. Also, my best friends, Tony and Runa got engaged. It was simple, beautiful, private and sweet. That's about the most perfect engagement I have heard about in a long time. "Congratulations to you both. I am so glad you have found each other."
Marriage scares me to the point of an anxiety attack. But when my best friends finally decided to take the plunge it made me well up. Tear, sniff.
Runa and I decided to spend some time together over Friday at this swanky new restaurant on our side of the city and then I bought myself a few books for this month - Milan Kundera's 'The Unbearable Lightness of Being', that I have read in college but I felt like owning a copy of this book. Kundera's writing is fantastic, as always. Stieg Larsson's 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo' is one of my latest buys. I picked it up for the most part because the book seems to be all over the place - everyone is talking about it, everyone is reading it and everyone is commending it. If everyone jumped into a well, I wouldn't follow them but I'm more interested about books than I am plunging to my death. I also own a Batman comic by Bob Kane now. I love graphic novels so I couldn't resist this. Would I recommend reading it? It's Batman - you bet.
The music this week – Santana's and India Arie's 'While My Guitar Gently Weeps' is excellent. Thanks to Ajay for the recommendation. It is, lush shoegazing blues-rock at its insanely, very good best. I've owned the original Beatles version and always loved it. But I suddenly realized just how genius this one by Santana is. It's totally different than I expected and I'm duly impressed. It, no doubt, is worth repeat listens.
Keep listening to good music.
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Labels: Batman, bob kane, india arie, milan kundera, santana, steig larsson, the girl with the dragon tattoo, unbearable lightness of being, while my guitar gently weeps
November 09, 2010
I might sound like I love going to the gym but the idea of going after a blissful vacation is not pretty. For the last few years I've been getting by on a recipe of being blessed with a great body type and being a continual activity machine. Except now my life isn't really providing me with the high intensity cardio like it used to, at least not in enough periods to cancel out my love of meat, chocolates and any other fat-related foodstuff.
So I've resumed my sessions at the gym after two weeks which got my almost-rusting muscles moving again and I've got back some of my missing energy. Of course, the dilemma only arrives when my work-out routine becomes boring and the pain, post-workout.
I was ready and anticipating feeling like I had the flu after the first couple of workouts. Oh my god, I really expected less.
My thighs, MY THIGHS! I discovered that this evening after the second workout. I was halfway to sitting on the toilet when my legs failed; I landed on the seat wrong, and nearly ripped my shorts trying to save myself.
It definitely felt like I had the flu, if that meant the sickest you've ever felt and then someone beats you up one side and down the other with a baseball bat and steals your cough syrup.
I'm hoping after day three I feel a tiny bit better, like the way you feel with a hangover. I still can't walk without saying 'Ow' a couple of hundred times, but I'm determined to do the entire run-up to Christmas and then take a break. And if by some miracle the exercises work as I imagined and my arms start to look like this one below, I'm hoping someone will tell me I still look pretty and buy me a dozen donuts.
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Mr. Big is easily my favorite band that I cannot seem to describe to others. Or for that matter get other people to listen to. They're a band out of the land of California and lead singer Eric Martin sings in one of the most beautiful voices I've ever heard. If the angels from on high sang in American then this is what the leading vocals would sound like. This release was part of their fourth studio album labeled 'Hey Man' containing this track called "Dancin' Right into the Flame".
For those of you who just found my blog take a minute to peruse other posts here at EC. I hope you enjoyed yourself this past month, November is sure to bring something amazing to everyone.
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Labels: dancin right into the flame, exercising, Mr. Big
November 03, 2010
On Gangtok
Rescheduling travel plans has its good side and bad side, as most choices made after a couple of Jim Beam shots. Originally, this was planned as a trip to Sikkim, with a short beginning holiday to Darjeeling. Then, life happened. An opportunity presented itself to us when there were warnings of landslides in Sikkim and I decided to stay longer in Darjeeling. But changes to a plan are much more than a pleasant phone call to different hotels in Gangtok, asking for a vacant room. It is truly a pain, but I am of the certainty that it is well worth it.
After something like four hours of periodically interrupted sleep in one of Darjeeling's most accessible modes of transportation – the taxi, I reached the hotel in Gangtok. It was the front desk, informing me that they would arrange for all necessary papers and permits for my travel to the beautiful Changu Lake and the Nathula Pass (the trading post between India and China). May God bless them, for pretending to give me time to get back to them and being so nice about it. The hotel belonged to a friend's friend so they quoted about 1200/- per night (from the usual 2,500). I took it. The room was lovely and the view spectacular. It could have been a lot worse, the rooms could have been unavailable or the new rate (season time) could have been astronomical. The hotel was situated 2 minutes away from M.G Road and is highly rated as one of the best in Gangtok.
The city's dining options are similarly impressive. Allen's Kitchen, as I would find out later, is one of the popular restaurants in Gangtok. The food was some of the best I'd had all trip.
From there, I took off to drive around Gangtok, to see my friend's school, the Tsuklakhang Palace and Monastery, various view-points and then back into the city to get ready for the evening out. If ever there was an almost instant way to fall madly in love with Gangtok, it is to walk it, sans map, just losing yourself in the area.
The nightlife in Gangtok is exactly what we needed to fall for the city. Little Italy was easy to like at first sight with its bohemian interiors and crowd.
And when they say the restaurants close early in Gangtok, it just means they won't have tables available after that time.
From there, I went to Café Live and Loud to discover a new brand of fabulous. With flashing lights and a crowded bar, which we were told is the most popular club in the city, was packed with friendly people, all drinking, all singing along to a number of familiar songs performed by the band Route 66. You should know that by familiar I'm talking specifically about the following songs: Knockin' on Heaven's Door, Layla and finally, and perhaps most importantly, Wild World, dedicated to yours truly.
And to end my trip in Gangtok, I went to a club called Orange, which was quite far from the city. This place was underground and filled up fast, and by filled up, I mean there was not a single inch of floor on which to stand and with only two bartenders the wait time between drinks became significant. It was around the time that we decided to dance that the DJ announced the last song was playing. Pfffft! But I will be back. Absolutely.
I had fun, unabashed fun. It was one of those trips I will be saying to my friends, "Remember when we were in Gangtok and…" for quite some time.
For those of you who frequent these pages you'll notice something odd about this post. I literally never post videos, ever. But this performance by the band Route 66 was awesome enough and the recording is interesting enough that I thought today I would make an exception. The song is 'Layla'. So how could I refuse to post this video? It's shot with my phone camera in Café Live n Loud in Gangtok (Sikkim) …it turned out pretty okay I think.
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Labels: allen's kitchen, cafe live n loud, club orange, gangtok, holiday, jim beam, little italy, route 66, sikkim


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Western blot on intestine samples - (Sep/29/2011 )
Previously I've done lots of WB on the liver tissue, and it worked perfect. Now I started working on WB of intestine samples (fr. mice) and there seem to be some problems in getting a clear sharp band. I used the whole cell extracts and proteinase inhibitor was added in the Ripa buffer during the protein extraction, run 180V for 1.5h, and dry blotting for 2h before the blocking and incubation.
However, the bands of the intestine samples are always somewhat smeared, or fuzzy, feels like the membrane was covered by some ''clouds'' while developing, and I even got a double band for GAPDH (same antibody I've tried on the liver and it was perfect)!!!
So I guess the problem was in the sample prep... Has anyone here had any experience in working with intestine samples (better protein samples)? Are there anything special I should pay attention to? Thanks =)
Intestines contain quite a lot of proteases including some of the more unusual ones, which aren't covered by normal protease inhibitor cocktails. You may need to add more protease inhibitor cocktail and look for inhibitors to the unusual ones.
Intestines also contain lots of glycoproteins which may be causing some resolution issues.
I know this is an old topic, but I thought I would share what I recently discovered for Westerns using mouse intestinal tissue. Let me give you a little background first so you can see how I arrived at what worked for me.
Typically, we cryofracture our mouse tissues under liquid nitrogen with a mortar and pestle. Powdered tissue is then scraped into a microcentrifuge tube and weighed. Samples are then lysed at 3x, 4x, 5x, the dry weight in the Protein Homogenization Buffer or PHB (Recipe Below), homogenzied with a Kontes handheld pellet pestle, cleared by centrifugation, and then the Bio-Rad protein assay is used to determine protein concentrations of each supernatant. Samples are then aliquot for Western blot. Depending on the tissue 25 - 50 µg is mixed with loading dye, boiled, and loaded onto a gel. I have had great success using this method to look as phospho and total protein signal in liver, white adipose, and muscle. Kidney was a bit weird at first, but I managed to get it to work by loading less and diluting into water + loading dye. Some other tissues like salivary gland and tumor sample were okay, but problematic. At the time I blamed it on the sample, not the buffer, but in the future I will change to the "new" buffer.
Several months ago, I had to run small intestines. The first batch of proximal intestine looked horrible. We were worried that they had not been handled fast enough during the dissection leading us to believe that, perhaps, they had started to self-digest. Months past and I was asked to try again a few weeks ago with a different cohort that was handled more rapidly. Once gain, though, my gels ran strangely. Aside from occasional field effects across the whole gel, you could also see waves and/or points in the dye front for individual bands. The Western blots confirmed that I had wavy and sometimes smeared bands. I tried loading less protein. Things improved a bit, but I still had abnormal bands. It then seemed that the protein ran as a band, but the signal (on the blot) was concentrated into a point in the middle of the band. After looking at the literature, studying various protocols, and reading suggestions on this site, I decided that the culprit was either salts or lipids. Since salts were easier to address, I worked on that first.
I made new Protein Homogenization Buffer (thinking that I could have accidentally used too much in the first lysis), and used a microconcentrator to "desalt" and do a buffer exchange. I then proceeded as usual with new concentrations, gels, blots, etc. There was a little improvement, but overall, things still looked bad. After several other failed attempts, I went to the literature and protocols again. This time, I also looked up commercial companies that might sell total intestinal lysates. I found that AbCam sold two versions, one in a proprietary preparation and another in a modified RIPA (Recipe below). I made test samples of a few proximal intestine pieces from the same mice set of mice. I did everything as listed in my methods above, but this time, I used the modified RIPA instead of the PHB. My first blot looked good, but was a little overloaded (50 µg). After decreasing to 30-35 µg, I was able to get a beautiful gel. I have since used the same method for distal small intestine.
I hope my trial and error helps someone else save time in their research!
Happy blotting! : )

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It's not like there's a new Morgan model every four years as there is a new Honda Civic, so anytime even a smidgen of a difference pops up in a Morgan, it's newsworthy. Thus, here we have the new Morgan Aero 8 Series III, a slightly different, handily improved version of the Morgan Aero 8 that debuted just four years ago.
First, there's a restyled front end that doesn't look cross-eyed anymore. In that front end sit new xenon headlamps, aimed forward this time. The air conditioning is better, there are better sealing materials throughout and a hardtop is available. Also, the window operation is smoother, the top stows three inches lower and under a new factory-made boot, there are door pockets, center console storage (called an "odd mints tray") and even a better finish in the doorjamb so your left elbow doesn't have to be bandaged as often.
The car you see here also got the new ostrich-embossed seats, but you can also get croc-embossed seats if you buy yours at the dealership we used, Morgan West in Santa Monica, California. And we had the Schedoni Italian luggage (the same stuff Ferraris have), straight from the Morgan factory, fitted in the trunk. The trunk itself is slightly larger this year to accommodate the Big Berthas we use for golf in this country.
Best of all, the curb weight is down 144 pounds to 2375 pounds, meaning the already tremendous power-to-weight ratio is now even more tremendous, at 7.3 pounds per hp, which is in supercar territory. With the super-smooth BMW 4.4-liter V8 still cranking out 325 hp (340 with the side pipes), the Aero 8 offers performance that rivals supercars.
Of course, it's still somewhat claustrophobic to drive, and the steering wheel is still in your chest like a Cup car, but step on the gas pedal and, Aye Chi-freaking-huahua, you will want to move to Malvern Link and have Spam, bacon and beans for breakfast every morning for the rest of your life. Morgan lists 0 to 62 mph in fewer than 4.5 seconds, and after a couple of hours driving through the Malibu hills, we think that's conservative.
Stopping is also world-class, at 117 feet from 62 mph. And it turns pretty nicely, too.
Pricing is still £62,500 to start ($115,900 at press time). Visit www.morganwest.net or www.morgan-motor.co.uk, or call (310) 998-3311, to find a dealer near you.


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Development/Tutorials/Qt4 Ruby Tutorial
Author: Darshan Ishaya, [email protected]
Qt®4 Tutorial for Ruby
This tutorial gives an introduction to GUI programming using the Qt toolkit, Ruby, and qt4-qtruby. It is simply a port of Trolltech's fine Qt Tutorial. Therefore, most of the text after this paragraph comes straight from their tutorial. I have modified it as necessary to make it make sense with the Ruby bindings, and have rearranged or rewritten a few parts to make them (I hope) a bit clearer.
This tutorial doesn't cover everything; the emphasis is on teaching the programming philosophy of GUI programming, and Qt's features are introduced as needed. Some commonly used features are never used in this tutorial.
Chapter one starts with a minimal "Hello world" program and the following chapters introduce new concepts. By Chapter 14, the "Hello world" program from Chapter 1 will have turned into a 448-line game.
If you're completely new to Qt, you might want to read How to Learn Qt if you haven't already done so. Keep in mind that like most documents about Qt, it is very C++ oriented.
Right now this tutorial is hosted on my site. I am going to be bringing it over here over the next week or so.
You can currently access this tutorial at the following address:
until it is fully transferred over to this wiki.


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Who says teachers can't make a million bucks? Deanna Jump is a first-grade teacher in Georgia who made $1 million by selling her upbeat lesson plans -- to other teachers.
She's now among 15,000 teachers nationwide to cash in on their creativity by promoting original materials through TeachersPayTeachers (TpT), an online marketplace to help educators share and sell resource materials, site founder Paul Edelman says.
Edelman characterizes his site "sort of like an eBay or an Etsy for lesson plans, units, activities, projects, exams, PowerPoints, smartboard activities."
He started the site in 2006 as a way for teachers to help teachers -- and earn some extra cash. "Even if a teacher is just making an extra $50 a month, it's a significant boost to their meager salaries," Edelman said in an email to NBC News, adding "our sellers find great pride in the fact that other teachers are using their ideas in classrooms around the country and world."
Today, the site has about 1.1 million registered members and has earned about $14 million so far, Edelman told NBC News.
"It's a place where teachers who love curriculum development can open up shop and sell their materials to teachers who thrive on delivery more than creation. It's symbiotic and elegant," said Edelman, a former New York middle school English teacher who now lives in Fontainebleau, France.
In August, the company grossed $2.5 million in sales, up from $305,000 the year before. Teachers pay $59.95 for an annual premium membership fee to sell materials on the site, with the agency taking a 15 percent cut of most sales, according to Businessweek.
Similar sites are popping up on the Internet: WeAreTeachers, another online community for teachers allows educators to chat and exchange ideas and win cash and prize and Udemy, a site for online classes, recently announced 10 of its teachers had earned a combined $1.6 million over the last year, according to TechCrunch.
Watch the most-viewed videos on NBCNews.com
Jump never dreamed of raking in the cash, she told Businessweek last month. For years, the 43-year-old educator and her husband, also a teacher, struggled financially, barely making enough to pay the bills in their town of Macon, Ga. She teaches at Central Fellowship Christian Academy, where she earns about $55,000 a year.
Attempts by NBC News to reach Jump were unsuccessful Tuesday.
She decided to use TeachersPayTeachers about three years ago after much urging from a fellow colleague.
"My units usually cover about two weeks' worth of material," Jump told Businessweek. "So if you want to teach about dinosaurs, you'd buy my dinosaur unit, and it has everything you need from language arts, math, science experiments, and a list of books you can use as resources. So once you print out the unit, you just have to add a few books to read aloud to your class, and everything else is there, ready to go for you."
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Within two years, Jump earned her first million by creating 93 separate lesson plans and selling 161,000 copies for $8 each.
While she's made a hefty amount, two teachers have sales over $300,000 and 23 others have sales over $100,000, and most of that money was earned over the past 18 months, Edelman said.
Jump told Businessweek in September her new wealth hasn't changed her, or her lifestyle, but has given her a source of financial relief. She has paid for her daughter's college tuition and purchased a special van for her quadriplegic brother, she told Businessweek.
"When I realized that we could buy that van and it wouldn't be a financial hardship for my family, that was really something," she told Businessweek. "But we really haven't changed our lifestyle. I drive a Kia, okay? I'm just trying to keep it real."
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Best of Quantic
Released: 5 Sep 2011
Label: Tru Thoughts
'The Best Of Quantic' is out now, on double CD and double vinyl, to celebrate an incredible ten years of swinging and soulful, funk-filled and tropical, authentic and innovative, DJ-delighting, booty-shaking, culture-clashing, horizon-broadening and consistently sweet music from Quantic on Tru Thoughtsrecords. All the biggest tunes are here, plus three exclusive new tracks.
It is a decade since a 20-year-old Will Holland (aka Quantic) came to meet Tru Thoughts A&R Robert Luis, holding in his hand the demo that was soon to become his first album, 'The 5th Exotic'. Picked up on by the biggest names in underground music at the time, including Gilles Peterson, LTJ Bukem andRichard Dorfmeister, it was clear that this impressive debut heralded a very special new arrival onto the scene. A record-obsessed DJ and crate-digger, his musical talents have always been matched by a rare curiosity and drive that sets him apart. His passion to find the roots of the sounds that he loves has taken him on a journey from the UK to Cali, Colombia, where he now lives and works with a diverse and vibrant mix of musicians.
Under his various guises, this musical troubadour has now released twelve albums and can truly lay claim to some of the most vital, fresh and soulful music of our time. 'The Best Of Quantic' highlights the stunning range of his work, bringing together some of the biggest tracks from across his many projects (plus three exclusive new cuts). The Quantic Soul Orchestra's heavy soulful funk; the dub and reggae fusion ofFlowering Inferno; the Latin swing and eclectic tropical rhythms of Quantic and his Combo Bárbaro;The Limp Twins' leftfield indie/beats. Added to these are tracks with Alice Russell, Kinny and the legendary Spanky Wilson; the Tempo, Nickodemus and Candela collaboration "Mi Swing Es Tropical", recorded in Puerto Rico, which soundtracked a worldwide Apple iPod advert; and of course the DJ and club-orientated Quantic studio productions that kicked it all off and still continue to move feet and minds the World over.


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It's spring right? But those morning rides feel like winter still…time to blow up the snowman…(warning–this video has nothing to do with bikes)
Title: Southern Safari Trailer
Seen on: PROLLY
While I'm in the middle of packing for, flying to and getting settled in Taiwan / China, check out the long-awaited Southern Safari video. Embedded above is the trailer and here's the information:
"Southern Safari is the latestLoose Nuts Cycles team video starring fixed gear freestyle riders Miles Mathia, Kareem Shehab, Torey Thornton, and Tom Lamarche. Watch as this group brings fixed gear bikes into uncharted territory across the southern United States. Ledges, rails, stairsets and more all get destroyed by this four man army. Sit back, crack a cold one, and see what life is like on tour with the Loose Nuts Team."
Buy it now on Vimeo for $8
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It's BMX time:
Title: Larry Edgar Winter 2013 So Cal Edit
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Larry Edgar Winter 2013 So Cal Edit
from SE Bikes
SE Bike's all-around BMX and drifting shredder Larry Edgar kicks off the 2013 year right with this brand new web edit. Larry keeps it exciting the whole way through by shutting down a bunch of southern California skateparks, street spots, and wraps it up at BMX legend Stephen Murray's backyard trails. You don't want to miss this one.
Film/Edit: Dylan Pfohl
Song: Rod Stewart – Maggie May
Larry Edgar Winter 2013 So Cal Edit from SE Bikes on Vimeo.
Title: Devotion Daniel Sandoval 2013
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Title:Daniel Martinez Hunt
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daniel Martinez hunt from tommy blanco on Vimeo.
Title: Dean Anderson-Ten Clips
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Hugh Hefner's former girlfriend Holly Madison is pregnant with her first child, Us Weekly reports.
Madison, 33, is expecting with her boyfriend of nine months, party promoter Pasquale Rotella.
See other celebs who are pregnant
"I've always wanted to be a mom," Madison told the magazine. "But I thought it would take longer!"
The former Girls Next Door star is 12 weeks along.


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I am sitting here at the Connecticut DMV and while standing in line I was thrilled to see an employee with a smartphone and printer approach me and give me a "reservation #" so I could then wait at the next area. I am not sure if the wait has decreased but at least I am sitting and working.
I must say though I am never comfortable coming to the DMV. The signage is terrible – sure it has improved over the years but I ended up in the wrong line for a while.
And still, after I got my reservation # I wasn't quite sure I was in the right place. The person next to me didn't know either, but thankfully there was someone who overheard my question and told me I was sitting in the right area and need to wait for my number to be called.


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I wonder how many end of the world blog posts went up this past week? Maybe some of you even wrote one. I actually thought about writing one myself, one night while I was trying to shut my head off from the edits I was doing. I got thinking about what I'd want to leave behind for some other civilization to find in the case of my demise if I decided to write uch a post. Well, actually, the demise of the entire planet (unless you have a bunker some place to wait it out , but personally, I didn't see any on sale and something just told me they'd be too pricey for me to afford.) So while I was thinking about all this, the thoughts of a time capsule started to sound interesting. What would I place in one? What would leave behind a lasting impression should the world come to an end? What things would tell the story of me and my contribution to the world? That's when I had to remind myself of how unimportant my life would be should the end actually come. I'm pretty sure there's nothing I could put in a time capsule that would wow some alien from another planet. And really do I care what some alien thinks? I don't think so.
So, while I wasn't having much luck settling down for the night, my mind then envisioned someone riding through the streets crying, "The Apocalypse is coming, the Apocalypse is coming!" (Can you tell I write historic fiction?) That's when I had to giggle. But hey, imagine if these doomsday predictions had come many years ago, before the invention of tv or the Internet. Who would warn the masses to prepare for the end? I mean, think of poor old Paul Revere when he made his historic ride, warning that the British were coming. If he could have posted that on Facebook it would have saved a lot of time and effort on his part, not to mention his poor horse. And tweeting? Let's not even go there. Call me physic but I predict that warning would probably have gone viral. I mean, the British were coming. That was serious business back then.
So, December 21 came and went. I spent the day shopping. There were so many people out like it was their last day on earth. (Sorry, couldn't resist that!)
The end of the world predictions will be forgotten for the time being—at least until the next time. My daughter mentioned she'd read that a specific time had even been chosen—7:11 am.. And here's the kicker—After my restless I-cant-shut-my-head-off-after-spending-the-evening-on-edits night, when I woke in the morning and looked at the clock. Do you know what time it was? Yup, you guess it: 7:11. Wow my subconscious must really be something. Here's hoping it helps me out the next time I'm stuck on a storyline.
So, how did you spend your end of the world day? Anything exciting happen other than the world not coming to an end? Do you have any doomsday jokes you're just dying to share? I'd sure like to read them.


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Summer is in full swing and there is nothing that screams summer fun for kids like an old-fashioned lemonade and cookie stand. This is not only wholesome fun but it's a great activity to engage the kids for hours.
We like to have two varieties of each, see some of our favorites are below. I love this type of activity because it gets the whole family involved and working together. Keep it homemade and fun and enjoy how proud the kids will be when they are complimented on their delicious treats!
Homemade Lemonade
Serves 15
- 10 lemons, plus more for garnishing if desired
- Zest from 2 -3 of the lemons
- 1½ cups sugar
- 6 cups water, divided
Wash lemons thoroughly. Roll lemons firmly on a hard surface until they become soft. This will make them easier to juice. Juice the lemons into a bowl. Strain the lemons (to remove pits and any pulp) into a large pitcher. Set aside.
In a pot over low heat, add sugar, lemon zest and 2 cups of water, stirring to melt the sugar. Simmer lightly for about 5 minutes and mix until sugar has dissolved and the mixture has a light yellow color. Do not boil. Remove from heat. Strain the sugar mixture into the large pitcher.
Add in 4 cups of cold water. Taste it to make sure it's not too sweet, if so add more water. Fill chilled glasses with ice and pour in the lemonade!
Add lemon slices as a garnish but do not leave them sitting in the lemonade, the white pith will give the lemonade a sour taste if it flavors it for too long.
Make lemonade ice cubes with homemade or store-bought lemonade. This will keep it from getting diluted from the ice cubes.
Pink Lemonade Slushy
Makes 1 1/2 quarts
- 1 cup freshly squeezed lemon juice (5 to 6 lemons)
- 1/2 to 3/4 cup superfine sugar, to taste
- 1 cup crushed ice
- 4 cups water
- 2 teaspoons grenadine
Place the lemon juice, sugar, ice, water, and grenadine in a blender and process until smooth. Serve in a chilled cup.
Chocolate Chunk Cookies with a Touch of Sea Salt
Makes 24 cookies
- 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
- 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 cup (1 stick) unsalted margarine, room temperature
- 3/4 cup (packed) light brown sugar
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1/4 cup powdered sugar
- 2 large egg yolks
- 1 large egg
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 8 ounces semisweet or bittersweet chocolate (do not exceed 72% cacao), coarsely chopped
- Flaky sea salt
Preheat oven to 375°.
Whisk flour, baking powder, kosher salt, and baking soda in a medium bowl; set aside.
Using an electric mixer on medium speed, beat margarine, brown sugar, sugar, and powdered sugar until light and fluffy, 3-4 minutes. Add egg yolks, egg, and vanilla. Beat, occasionally scraping down the sides of the bowl, until mixture is pale and fluffy, 4-5 minutes. Reduce mixer speed to low; slowly add dry ingredients, mixing just to blend. Using a spatula, fold in chocolate.
Spoon rounded tablespoonfuls of cookie dough onto 2 parchment paper-lined baking sheets, spacing 1-inch apart. Sprinkle cookies with sea salt.
Bake cookies, rotating sheets halfway through, until just golden brown around the edges, 10-12 minutes (the cookies will firm up as they cool). Let cool slightly on baking sheets, then transfer to wire racks; let cool completely.
White Chocolate Macadamia Nut Cookies
Makes 24 cookies
- ½ cup margarine
- ½ cup shortening
- ¾ cup brown sugar
- ½ cup white sugar
- 1 egg
- 2 teaspoons vanilla
- 2 cups flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 cup white chocolate chips
- 1 cup coarsely chopped macadamia nuts
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. In a large stand mixer, cream together margarine, shortening and sugars until fluffy. Beat in egg and vanilla. On low speed, add flour and baking soda; then white chocolate chips and nuts (if using). Drop by the tablespoonful onto lightly greased cookie sheets. Bake for 8 to 10 minutes. Let sit on cookie sheets 1 minute before removing to wire rack to finish cooling. Makes about 2-1/2 dozen cookies.
Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies
Makes 36 cookies
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 2 cups rolled (old-fashioned) oats
- 1/2 cup coarsely chopped pecans
- 8 tablespoons (1 stick) unsalted margarine or butter, at room temperature
- 1/2 cup lightly packed light brown sugar
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- 1 large egg
- 1/4 cup maple syrup
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 3/4 cup semisweet chocolate chips
Set 2 racks in the middle and upper thirds of the oven and preheat to 350 degrees F.
In a medium bowl, stir the flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, oats, and pecans together with a whisk or fork.
In a large bowl, beat the butter, brown sugar, and granulated sugar together for 30 seconds until blended. Beat in the egg until smooth and barely fluffy. With mixer running on medium high, drizzle in the maple syrup, and vanilla until incorporated. Turn the mixer down to its lowest setting and gradually add the flour-oatmeal mixture. Blend just to combine, then mix in the chocolate chips.
Drop walnut-sized balls of dough onto a nonstick or parchment-lined cookie sheet at 3-inch intervals. With moistened fingers, flatten and round out the cookies a little. Bake for 9 minutes, turning the pan once for even baking. The cookies are done when they are lightly browned on top. Set the cookie sheets on a rack to cool.


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Whitney stands around with her mouth open while other people live their lives.
She's beautiful…but she's excruciatingly boring.
She does however manage to make a new friend. Or rather MTV producers have hired a new friend for her. And The Friend is where it's at.
Her name is Olivia Palermo. A socialite familiar in New York gossip circles for a while now about to be exposed to 15 year olds everywhere.
Her past is smutty and scandalous. She's already warred with other socialites in the city. She hired a publicist before she ever needed one. And she wants it. She wants it badly.
Watch the trailer below and read this brilliant article for a full play by play of Olivia's scene. It's Gossip Girl meets the Real Housewives and for gossip lovers, really the best thing ever. She even looks like Blair Waldorf!
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England Travel Essentials
England is expensive. Even if you're camping or hostelling, using public transport, buying picnic lunches and eating in pubs and cafés your minimum expenditure will be around £35/US$55/€40 per person per day. Couples staying in B&Bs, eating at unpretentious restaurants and visiting some attractions should expect roughly £70/US$110/€80 per person, while if you're renting a car, staying in hotels and eating well, budget for £120/US$185/€135 each. Double that figure if you choose to stay in stylish city hotels or grand country houses. On any visit to London, work on the basis that you'll need an extra £30/US$45/€35 per day to get the best out of the city.
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Many of England's historic attractions – from castles to stately homes – are owned and/or operated by either the National Trust (t0844/800 1895, wwww.nationaltrust .org.uk) or English Heritage (t0870/333 1181, wwww.english-heritage.org.uk), whose properties are denoted throughout this book with "NT" or "EH". Both usually charge entry fees (roughly £6–12), though some sites are free. If you plan to visit more than half a dozen places owned by either, it's worth considering an annual membership (around £40). You can join online or in person at any staffed attraction. US members of the Royal Oak Foundation (wwww.royal-oak.org) get free admission to all National Trust properties.
Non-UK residents can buy a Great British Heritage Pass (4/7/15/30 days £38/54/72/96; wwww.britishheritagepass .com), which gives free entry to 600 cultural and historic properties, including National Trust and English Heritage. Family discounts are available. You can buy it online, at equivalent rates from travel agents in your home country, or at major tourist offices in the UK.
Many stately homes remain privately owned, charging £8–18 for admission. Other old buildings are owned by local authorities, which generally charge less or allow free access.
Municipal art galleries and museums often have free admission, as do the big state museums (British Museum, National Gallery, National Railway Museum, Royal Armouries and many others). Private museums and other collections rarely charge more than £6 admission. Most cathedrals and churches either charge modest admission or ask for donations.
Admission prices quoted are the full adult rate, unless otherwise stated. Concessionary rates – generally half-price – for senior citizens (over 60), under-26s and children (aged 5–17) apply almost everywhere, from tourist attractions to public transport; you'll need official ID as proof of age. Children under 5 are rarely charged.
Full-time students are often entitled to discounts too. They can benefit from an ISIC (International Student Identity Card), while people under 26 can get an IYTC (International Youth Travel Card) and full-time teachers qualify for the ITIC (International Teacher Identity Card). All these are valid for special air, rail and bus fares and discounts at attractions. Each costs around £10/€14/US$22) – see wwww.isic.org for details.
Crime and personal safety
It's highly unlikely that you'll be at any risk as you travel around England. Despite what the media might have you believe, terrorism is exceptionally rare – and, as a holiday-maker, you won't be visiting the toughest urban estates where crime flourishes. You can walk more or less anywhere without fear of harassment, though all the big cities have their edgy districts and it's always better to err on the side of caution, especially late at night, when – for instance – you should avoid dark streets and give drunken groups a wide berth. Leave your passport and valuables in a hotel or hostel safe (carrying ID is not compulsory), and exercise the usual caution on public transport. If you're taking a cab make sure it's officially licensed: plan ahead by noting down local taxi numbers beforehand, or ask bar or restaurant staff for a recommendation. If you're robbed, report it straight away to the police: your insurance company will require a crime report number.
Most visitors rarely come into contact with the police, who are approachable and helpful – though they can get tetchy at football matches, political demonstrations and in the late evenings when pubs close.
Being caught in possession of a small quantity of "soft" drugs – mainly marijuana and cannabis – will probably result in a police caution. If, on the other hand, the police suspect you are dealing, you can expect to be held in custody and ultimately prosecuted.
Travellers arriving directly from most other EU countries can carry 3200 cigarettes, 200 cigars or 3kg of loose tobacco, plus 10 litres of spirits, 90 litres of wine and 110 litres of beer. Any more than this and you'll have to provide proof that it's for personal use only. Limits are lower from some newer EU member states. If you're arriving from a non-EU country, you can buy a limited amount of duty-free goods: 200 cigarettes or 50 cigars or 250g of tobacco, plus 4 litres of wine, 1 litre of spirits, 16 litres of beer, and 60ml of perfume. For full details, see wwww .hmrc.gov.uk.
The current is 240v AC. North American appliances will need a transformer and adaptor; those from Europe, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand only need an adaptor.
Entry requirements
EU citizens can travel to – and settle in – the UK with just a passport or identity card. US, Canadian, South African, Australian and New Zealand citizens can stay for up to six months without a visa, provided they have a valid passport. Many other nationalities require a visa, obtainable from the British consular office where you live. Check with the UK Border Agency (wwww.ukvisas.gov.uk) for up-to-date information on visa applications, extensions and all other aspects of residency.
Gay and lesbian travellers
England offers one of Europe's most diverse and accessible lesbian and gay scenes. Nearly every sizeable town has some kind of organized gay life, from bars and clubs to community groups – with the widest choice in London, Manchester and Brighton. Many venues are listed in this book, and virtually every town has a free local listings sheet. Other listings and news can be found at wwww.pinkpaper.com and in the glossy magazine Gay Times (wwww.gaytimes.co .uk). For information and links, go to wwww .gaybritain.co.uk and www.gaytravel.co.uk. The age of consent is 16.
No vaccinations are required for entry into Britain. Citizens of all EU and EEA countries are entitled to free medical treatment within the UK's National Health Service (NHS), on production of their European Health Insurance Card (EHIC). The same applies to those Commonwealth countries which have reciprocal healthcare arrangements with the UK – for example Australia and New Zealand. Everyone else will be charged: you should definitely take out health insurance before you travel.
Pharmacists (usually known as chemists in England) can dispense a limited range of drugs without a doctor's prescription. Most are open standard shop hours; check on signs in the window (or in local newspapers) for which local chemists are due to be staying open late and/or at the weekend. For generic painkillers, cold remedies and the like, the local supermarket is usually the cheapest option.
For medical advice 24 hours a day, call NHS Direct (t0845/4647, wwww.nhsdirect .nhs.uk). The website is packed with useful information, and also has directories of doctors' surgeries and walk-in centres nationwide.
Otherwise, minor issues can be dealt with at the surgery of any local doctor, also known as a GP (General Practitioner); get directions from NHS Direct or your hotel. For serious injuries, go to the emergency room of the nearest hospital – generally known as "casualty" or "A&E" (accident and emer-gency) and open 24 hours. In a life-or-death situation, call for an ambulance on t999 or t112.
Always take out an insurance policy before travelling to cover against theft, loss and illness or injury. A typical policy will provide cover for loss of baggage, tickets and – up to a certain limit – cash or travellers' cheques, as well as cancellation or curtailment of your journey. Most exclude so-called dangerous sports unless an extra premium is paid: in England this can mean watersports, rock climbing and mountaineering, though hiking and kayaking would probably be covered. Medical cover is strongly advised. Always ascertain beforehand whether benefits will be paid as treatment proceeds or only after you return home, and whether there is a 24-hour medical emergency number. When securing baggage cover, make sure that the per- article limit will cover your most valuable possession. Keep receipts for medicines and medical treatment, and in the event you have anything stolen you must obtain a crime report number from the police.
Royal Mail (t0845/774 0740, wwww .royalmail.com) runs the mail system, but post offices are operated by a separate company, Post Office (t0845/722 3344, wwww.postoffice.co.uk). Confused? Most Britons are too.
Virtually all post offices are open Monday to Friday 9am to 5.30pm, and on Saturdays 9am to 12.30pm. Small branches sometimes close on Wednesday afternoons, while main offices in larger towns and cities stay open all day Saturday. In villages general stores often host "sub-post office" counters; even if the shop is open for longer, post office services are only available during the hours above.
Rates depend on the size and weight of the item, as well as delivery speed. For UK destinations, postcards and ordinary letters (up to 100g, and smaller than 240x165x5mm) sent first class for next-day delivery cost 60p. Postcards and letters (up to 10g) cost 87p to Europe or £1.28 worldwide. Check online for other options. You can buy stamps at post offices and at a wide variety of ordinary shops, supermarkets and filling stations.
For an overview of the whole of England on one (double-sided) map, Collins' 1:550,000 and Ordnance Survey's 1:625,000 maps are probably the best; both include some city plans. Ordnance Survey (OS; wwww .ordnancesurvey.co.uk) and Michelin also produce useful regional maps at a scale of 1:250,000 and 1:400,000 respectively, while Philips, in conjunction with OS, produce detailed county maps at a scale of 1:18,000. Otherwise, for general route-finding the most useful resources are the road atlases produced by AA, RAC, Geographers' A–Z and Collins, among others, at a scale of around 1:250,000.
These and others are widely available from bookshops, and online from the likes of Stanfords (wwww.stanfords.co.uk), England's premier map and travel specialist.
UK currency is the pound sterling (£), divided into 100 pence (p). Coins come in denominations of 1p, 2p, 5p, 10p, 20p, 50p, £1 and £2. Notes are in denominations of £5, £10, £20 and £50. Very occasionally you may receive Scottish or Northern Irish banknotes: they're legal tender throughout the UK, but many businesses in England may be unwilling to accept them. If you're handed one, you'd be well advised to cheerfully hand it back and ask for a "normal" note (or coins) instead.
Every sizeable town and village has a branch of one or other of the retail ("high street") banks, along with a sprinkling of smaller "building societies" (which operate in more or less the same way). The easiest way to get hold of cash is to use your debit card in a "cash machine" (ATM); check in advance with your home bank whether you will be subject to a daily withdrawal limit. ATMs are ubiquitous: inside and outside banks, at all major points of arrival and motorway service areas, at large supermarkets, petrol stations and even inside some pubs, rural post offices and village shops – though a charge of about £1.50 may be levied on cash withdrawals at small, stand-alone ATMs: the screen will notify you if so and give you an option to cancel.
Some people still rely on travellers' cheques in sterling. American Express is the most commonly accepted brand, followed by Visa. Amex will not charge commission if you exchange cheques at their own offices, nor will some banks – otherwise you will be charged 2–3 percent commission. Note that in the UK you cannot use travellers' cheques as cash: you'll always have to cash them first, making them an unreliable source of funds in more remote areas.
Outside banking hours, you can change cheques or cash at post offices and bureaux de change – the latter tend to be open longer hours and are found in most city centres, and at major airports and train stations. Avoid changing in hotels, where the rates are normally poor.
Paying by plastic involves inserting your card into a "chip-and-pin" terminal beside the till, then keying in your secret PIN number to authorize the transaction: the only person handling your card is you. Many restaurants use wireless chip-and-pin handsets: your waiter will bring it to your table when it's time to pay. At establishments with older swipe systems, never let your card leave your sight: take it yourself to the till and watch while staff are doing the swiping.
Credit cards are widely accepted in hotels, shops and restaurants – MasterCard and Visa are almost universal – charge cards such as American Express and Diners Club less so. Smaller establishments may accept cash only. At supermarkets and some other shops, you may be asked at the checkout if you want "cash back": that is, they let you pay (by card) for up to £50 more than the cost of your goods and receive the change in cash – very handy.
Opening hours and public holidays
Opening hours for most businesses, shops and offices are Monday to Saturday 9am to 5.30 or 6pm, with many shops also open on Sundays, generally 10.30 or 11am until 4.30 or 5pm. Big supermarkets have longer hours (except on Sundays), sometimes round the clock. Some towns have an early closing day (usually Wednesday) when most shops close at 1pm. Banks are usually open Monday to Friday 9am to 4pm, and Saturday 9am to 12.30pm or so. You can usually get fuel any time of the day or night in larger towns and cities. We've quoted full opening hours for specific museums, galleries and other attractions throughout this book; where these are seasonal (summer means Easter–Oct, winter Nov–Easter), they are shown in the format 9/10am–5/6pm.
Confusingly, several of England's public holidays are termed "bank holidays" – though it's not just the banks who have a day off: businesses and most shops also close, though large supermarkets, small corner shops and many tourist attractions stay open. On Christmas Day the whole country shuts down (including public transport), though you'll find occasional signs of life on Boxing Day and New Year's Day.
England's phone numbers are a mess. Most (though not all) have eleven digits, including a prefix beginning t01, 02 or 03 which generally denotes a fixed landline, or t07 which almost invariably denotes a mobile phone/cellphone. The t08 prefix is totally random: t0800 and 0808 are free to call if you're using a landline, but very expensive if you're calling off a mobile/cell; t0844 and 0845 are cheap if you're with one phone company but expensive otherwise; t0870 and 0871 are pricey whatever you do. Beware the "premium rate" t09 prefix, common for pre-recorded information services (used by some tourist authorities), which can be charged at anything up to £1.50 a minute.
Public pay phones (or "phone boxes") are plentiful and take coins (minimum charge 40p); most also accept credit cards. You can make international calls from any phone box, though it's usually cheaper to buy a phonecard, available from many newsagents in denominations of £5, £10 and upwards. You dial the company's local access number, key in the pin number on the card and then make your call.
Mobile phone access is universal in towns and cities. Rural areas are well covered too, but sometimes patchy, with occasional blind spots. To use your own mobile/cellphone, check with your provider before you leave home that roaming is activated – and that your phone will work in the UK (if you're coming from North America, you will need a multi-band model). If you're planning to stay for any length of time, it's often simpler to buy a handset plus local SIM card when you arrive: basic pre-pay ("pay as you go") phones start at around £50, usually including some credit.
Phoning UK directory enquiries is expensive; instead look online at wwww .bt.com. Business and service numbers are searchable at wwww.yell.com.
From the last Sunday in March until the last Sunday in October, the UK is on GMT+1 – known as "British Summer Time" (BST). For the rest of the year, it follows GMT. Apart from a short period around the changeovers, England is consistently five hours ahead of the US east coast, one hour behind most of Europe and ten hours behind Sydney. Full details at wwww.timeanddate.com.
Tourist information
The body promoting inbound tourism to the UK is VisitBritain (wwww.visitbritain.com), with offices worldwide and a comprehensive website, packed with useful tips and ideas. Its partner agency VisitEngland operates under the branding "Enjoy England" (wwww.enjoy england.com) – another excellent source of information. Within England, responsibility for promoting particular areas is in the hands of regional tourism boards and smaller local bodies.
Virtually every town has a tourist office (called a Tourist Information Centre, or "TIC"). They tend to follow standard shop hours (Mon–Sat 9am–5.30pm), sometimes also open on Sundays. Hours are curtailed in winter (Nov–Easter). Staff will nearly always be able to book accommodation, reserve space on guided tours, and sell guidebooks, maps and walks leaflets. They can also provide lists of local cafés, restaurants and pubs, and though they aren't supposed to recommend particular places you'll often be able to get a feel for the best local places to eat.
Areas designated as national parks usually have their own dedicated information centres, which offer similar services to TICs but can also provide expert guidance on local walks and outdoor pursuits.
Travellers with disabilities
The UK has good facilities for travellers with disabilities. All new public buildings – including museums, galleries and cinemas – must provide wheelchair access, train stations and airports are fully accessible, many buses have easy-access boarding ramps, while kerbs and signalled crossings have been dropped in many towns and cities. The number of accessible hotels and restaurants is also growing, and reserved parking bays are available almost everywhere. If you have specific requirements, it's always best to talk first to your travel agent, chosen hotel or tour operator.
Travelling with children
If you're travelling with children, facilities in England are no worse than in most other European countries. Breastfeeding is legal in all public places, including restaurants, cafés and public transport, and baby-changing rooms are available widely, including in malls and train stations. Under-5s aren't charged on public transport or at attractions; 5- to 16-year-olds usually get a fifty-percent discount. Children aren't allowed in certain licensed (that is, alcohol-serving) premises – though this doesn't apply to restaurants, and many pubs have family rooms or beer gardens where children are welcome. Some B&Bs and hotels won't accept children under a certain age (often 12) – our reviews state where this applies. Check wwww .travellingwithchildren.co.uk and wwww .babygoes2.com for tips and ideas.
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My model is largely inspired from the only one I found online made by Bruno Gavira.
But there's no tutorial available on how to make it.
So let's start from the begining. To make this balance bike, You need a 3 inch diameter PVC pipe that you need to cut using a coping saw.
At this point I realized that the wheel put to much pressure on the PVC and the plastic need to be reinforced by pieces of metal (found at the deck section at home depot) that I riveted (riveter cost 15$ and it's really useful to have one!)
For the fork, it just like playing Lego, nothing complicated, you just have to find elbow and T (3/4 inch diameter)
The only tricky part is to flatten the end of the fork using once again a heat gun (10$ by the way)
You just squeeze the end with a piece of wood once the plastic start being flexible (around 1 min with a heat gun) and wait around 1 min to get the temperature to cool down.
Heating PVC with a heat gun is probably not a safe idea and might release nasty molecules, so I recommend to do this step far away from your little ones.
The handle bar does not need any heating, just one more T connectors.
The mudguard is made from a 90 degres 4 inch connector and slighly shaped at the base with the heat gun. The strong connection is made with rivets.
The saddle is also riveted on the front and the back side.
All the pipes needs to be secured with PVC cement.
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I have recently been considering purchasing a Benelli M1 or M3 shotgun and was lucky enough to shoot one at the range this weekend. Handles both buck and slugs like a dream. My question is that since I'm a lefty I have to change my grip to disengage the safety. Is it possible to switch the safety so that I could disengage it with my trigger finger by pushing it to the right instead of pushing it to the left with my thumb? Any ideas or techniques would be appreciated.
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Benelli makes Left Handed models of their Montefeltro and Super Black Eagle guns. I believe that the PG and shorter barrels will fit on the Super Black Eagle, and you would get the advatnage of 3.5" shells if you wanted them.
I am not sure if the Montefeltro is interchangable with the tactical accessories for the M1.
I would think that the safety can be reversed on the M1/M3 though. What the safety does is cause a post to be pushed up into the trigger group, effectively keeping it from operating. The cylinder that is the "safety button" should be able to be removed and reversed by any Benelli authorized smith, psuhing the button will still cause the post to be "ramped" up into the trigger group.
Consult a qualified smith on this, and don't try it yourself...
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Lift weights and convert to Islam
In a pinch, a belt makes a great noose.
Don't drop the soap...
Deke beat me too it. I was gonna suggest he hit the gym, get some hardcore tats, watch "The Wire" and "Sons of Anarchy" a lot and try and lose the country club edge.
Mostly he should just spend a lot of time thinking about the life his drunken rage ended. He should think about that a lot. Like all the time.
Put whatever education you managed to acquire in between lacrosse games to use and study law. Particularly criminal, constitutional and civil rights law as well as appellate procedure, with an eye to becoming a writ-writer. Nobody lays a hand on the person they think may be able to get them out...
finding some sort of faith wouldn't be a bad idea either.
Bring plenty of vaseline.
Don't go away mad....Just go away...for a long long time....
Think deeply about why you are there. You violently murdered a vibrant, wonderful woman. While your penance and reflection will not restore her to life, it may bring you some modest enlightenment.
My favorite tv series to watch when I'm in jail is "Dr Katz, professional therapist". Also, polevaulting would be a good hobby. Nobody messes with a polevaulter in prison. Wait, that's "pole dancer".
Get a haircut.
HERE ya go, readers: another crass careless, attenion-grabbing headline by the Hook, though more idiotic and CRASS than usual.
Find God. You will need him..
ice dog, become a priest next.
amazing, how merciless the commenters are. What inner reages they must have. I feel pity for them. Not a shred of compassion. Amazing. They seem to be the ones that need medical help.
George - Rot in hell. The world would be better if you had never been born. You should seriously consider the advantages of ending it all.
NEVER drink again.
Remember that tossed salad isn't a dinner choice
Forter - Two lives ended the night Huguely beat Love to death, hers and his. She had no choice, he did. I feel tremendous compassion for Love and her family and little to none for Huguely. I grew up around people like him, entitled, wealthy and unconcerned about the impact of their behavior on others. He was clearly a time bomb and I hope that time brings him some peace but not without real penance for the crime he committed.
You see I have a daughter and if an animal like Huguely injured her he would be praying for the safety of a jail cell.
@stavros -- me too and: amen to that brother ....
Have Morgan Freeman smuggle a tiny pick ax to you and say its for making chess pieces. Then get in good with the corrupt prison warden and when the time is right, steal his money and clothes.
The loss of one life does not mean another needs to be lost. Remember Yardley, grieve her loss and your loss of freedom appropriately in your own individual way. Explore the puzzle of factors that could have lead to her death: intimate partner domestic violence, effects of alcohol, anger control and/or other factors that entered in. Try to pass on what you learn in many ways so that others may not have to go through what you are going through. Use the time and tools prison offers to learn and to expand your ability to excel in your chosen field and as a human being.
Keep your head up, Georgie. Eventually the truth will come out about Adderall, and it might happen in the next 26 years. I mean in the mainstream media, which I get my reality from.
Oops, I meant to say eventually the truth will come out about mixing Adderall and alcoholic beverages which may have contained caffeine as well but we'll never know because an athletic department physician testified that all Adderall using atheletes had normal heart rhythms, and they all came to their checkup drunk.
Change your tastes from hot little, silver spoon, pill popping lax chicks, to large, hiv+ black men. I'm afraid you won't find many of the former where you're headed.
@ rick rude -- I am amazed that, in this day and age, people like you now consider it as a normal, accepted matter of course that a prison sentence for a young white male inevitably and inexorably includes the cruel and unusual punishment of being sodomized by "large, HIV+ black men" -- to use your own words. If you want some clear data on the world our daughters inhabit, read Breanne Fahs' book Performing Sex: The Making and Unmaking of Women's Erotic Lives (SUNY Press), which is based on very detailed studies and broad ranging interviews that may possibly give you a much clearer and better-informed view of how bad things still are for America's "liberated" women. There is still so much violence against women commonly accepted in our society that it is possible to say that Yeardley Love's tragic murder by a drunk college athlete was just "more of the same old story." A Black girl beaten up by her boyfriend at Norfolk might not attract the same media frenzy. It is possible, though rather unlikely, that this was the first time Huguely ever hit a woman. It is certain, however, that in any given year there will be quite a few American woman -- mothers, daughters, wives, grandmothers, girlfriends, dearly beloved and casual lovers and total strangers in America who are beaten or coerced or cowed into submission by the threat of violence from a man they know very well ... or scarcely at all.
Does that faux feminist routine of yours ever work in getting you laid?
I am sure that for you, Rick, it might work no better than anything else you have tried. Facts are facts -- the facts favor Fahs' analysis. Read the book, especially if you have a daughter or if you love or ever have loved any woman. It might help you understand the world our women live in. Or don't live in any longer.
But, really, Rick -- if you need help, try to keep in mind the old Pennsylvania Dutch adage: "Kissing wears out. Cooking don't."
Thanks, Christian. That reaffirms what I've always known: women love a man who knows his way around a kitchen. I cook for my girlfriend on most evenings. We've got a good thing going. I prepare the meals, she cleans up the kitchen. Simpatico.
As for our earlier exchange...
"A Black girl beaten up by her boyfriend at Norfolk might not attract the same media frenzy."
Maybe not... though a "black girl" gang raped by a Division One lacrosse team certainly did. I wonder what your initial opinion on that matter was. I wonder what it remains.
But just so we're clear, I think what this piece of sh!t did was reprehensible. I don't condone violence against women (or any other innocent people for that matter). But I'm a firm believer in what goes around comes around. Karma will do this punk in, and do him in good. He was a spoiled and entitled bully and a big man on campus who never heard the word "no". Now he's a cute little country club kid headed to state prison. Good luck, Georgie Boy... don't drop the soap!
I know that any undue pain and suffering he may endure behind bars (and he will) can never bring back the life of a beautiful girl cut down in her prime, but you can't tell me that the thought of it doesn't bring just a little bit of peace and pleasure to those loved ones she leaves behind. Were she my own little sister, I really can't tell you I'd be that broken up over little Georgie being turned into some prison gang's nightly glory hole. I've no sympathy for that punk. None whatsoever. Enjoy that rectal prolapse, Georgie!
Good talking to you, Christian. No disrespect to you, sir. I support your right to your opinions. I hope you can support mine.
...we're using this to sell books now?
Rory...this is the stupidest column the hook has ever posted. It's mean, hateful. It's a public lynching. I just don't see the point of doing this? Let's move on!!
My advice to George is to read the book "The Power of Now" by Eckhart Tolle. His soul just like everyone else's is on a journey of experience, growth, and evolution. This stint of his journey has been painful and difficult for both himself and those hurt by his actions, but he can still find connection to God/Spirit if he seeks. This will make all the difference.
How about this for advice? Hey George : it's over. Now you can go to hell.
@Joe ... my notion of hell might include being cooped up forever in a small room with everyone who has commented on this post without any sense of Christian spirit. Vengeance is mine, saith this crowd.
phoReal, and even if the warden is a WAY shorter man, make the clothes and shoes magically fit.


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San Antonio Spurs leading scorer Tony Parker will be out for around four weeks with a left ankle sprain, the National Basketball Association team said on Saturday. The loss of the All-Star guard from France could be a big setback for the Spurs, who enjoy the best record in the NBA with a 46-14 mark. Parker injured the ankle in the third quarter of Friday's win over the Sacramento Kings. An examination confirmed the sprain. He has averaged 21.0 points and 7.6 assists, both team highs, in starting 56 games this season and recently played in his fifth NBA All-Star game.


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Smart Grid Investment: Different Priorities Could Lead to Similar Results
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In the developed world, we take for granted the infrastructure fundamentals that give us the good life. Healthy drinking water? Naturally. Reliable electricity? Of course. But in the developing world, this infrastructure is out of reach for at least 1 billion people. Last week the Center for Science, Technology, and Society at Santa Clara University in Santa Clara, California hosted an event that featured entrepreneurs who are making positive impacts in the lives of people in Africa and India. For people living in energy poverty, electricity is as game-changing a technology as it is for us. The hierarchy of needs around electricity has interesting parallels to how we might define the prioritization of a limited amount of electricity – particularly if we do not engineer grid resiliency in our buildouts of Smart Grids.
In developing countries, electricity is first allocated to light. Lighting extends hours of productive work or study, and it provides safety. The second priority is for charging mobile phones. Developing economies are highly reliant on mobile communications, and mobile banking, which allows small businesses to flourish without requiring a financial services infrastructure complete with branch banks in remote villages. Providing the power to keep mobile devices running helps keep their virtual finance systems running. After these two needs are met, electricity is then used for entertainment – powering radios and TVs. And finally, electricity is allocated to power agricultural equipment – running pumps for irrigation.
The entrepreneurs who spoke at this event are stimulating incremental changes that add up to economic, social, and political empowerment – not just in providing electricity, but providing new livelihoods and career options for underserved regions and populations. What is happening would not fit the classic definition of a Smart Grid, but it is slowly building a grid, and doing it in very smart ways. Contrast that to the level of activities to upgrade today's grid, the greatest machine of the 20th century into a Smart Grid. In our developed economy, our focus is much more on financial and regulatory innovation as opposed to technology and business model innovations for developing economies. And while developing economies would be happy with reliable electricity, their highly distributed, small scale electrical generation deployments deliver inherent resiliency that our grid is lacking. This is where our Smart Grid investments need to be focused.
The financial innovations are ongoing. The Master Limited Partnerships Parity Act was re-introduced for consideration this year in the US Congress on April 24, with bipartisan support from Democratic and Republican senators and house representatives. As noted in last week's article, Master Limited Partnerships or MLPs are traded on public stock exchanges, offering cheaper access to capital than bank loans. Making this financial mechanism available to renewable energy and energy storage projects would be a wonderful market-based stimulus for these types of projects, and accelerate deployment of distributed energy resources (DERs) into the grid.
Last week Solar Mosaic announced its latest investment opportunity for California-based investors. As this and other models of crowd-funding proliferate, utilities will have to more rapidly adapt their own operations to support integration of these DERs into the grid.
It's the evolution of regulations to allow for grids to become more resilient as well as reliable that is the area of greatest need in developed economies. The real challenges are in creating regulatory roadmaps that allow for a graceful evolution of utilities from managers of assets that deliver electricity to managers of services that oversee electricity delivery and much more. This will be one of the topics of discussion at this week's webinar hosted by The Energy Collective on May 1. Get more information about the event and register to attend by clicking here. We need ongoing discussions about how to change our existing business models to accommodate DER. Without an evolution of business models, we could be left contemplating which devices in our homes and businesses get highest priority for electricity delivered from a grid that lacks resiliency and results in reduced reliability.
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Lawyers with the Department of Justice and those for the plaintiffs who sued over the issue told the clerk for the federal appeals court in Manhattan that they wanted to suspend the appeals case until they hear again from U.S. District Court Judge Edward Korman, U.S. Attorney Loretta Lynch said in the letter.
The government had appealed the judge's underlying April 5 ruling, which ordered emergency contraceptives based on the hormone levonorgestrel be made available without a prescription, over the counter and without point-of-sale or age restrictions.
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She added that if the judge agrees, "we intend to file with this court notice that the government is voluntarily withdrawing the above-referenced appeal."
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The government had originally asked the judge to suspend the effect of that ruling until the appeals court could decide the case. But the judge declined, saying the government's decision to restrict sales of the morning-after pill was "politically motivated, scientifically unjustified and contrary to agency precedent." He also said there was no basis to deny the request to make the drugs widely available.
The government had argued that "substantial market confusion" could result if the judge's ruling were enforced while appeals were pending, only to be later overturned.
Last week, an appeals court dealt the government a setback by saying it would immediately permit unrestricted sales of the two-pill version of the emergency contraception until the appeal was decided.
The morning-after pill contains a higher dose of the female hormone progestin than is in regular birth control pills. Taking it within 72 hours of rape, condom failure or just forgetting regular contraception can cut the chances of pregnancy by up to 89 percent, but it works best within the first 24 hours. If a girl or woman already is pregnant, the pill, which prevents ovulation or fertilization of an egg, has no effect.
The FDA was preparing in 2011 to allow over-the-counter sales of the morning-after pill with no limits when Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius overruled her own scientists in an unprecedented move.
The FDA announced in late April that Plan B One-Step, the newer version of emergency contraception, the same drug but combined into one pill instead of two, could be sold without a prescription to those age 15 or older. Its maker, Teva Women's Health, plans to begin those sales soon. Sales had previously been limited to those who were at least 17.
The judge later ridiculed the FDA changes, saying they established "nonsensical rules" that favored sales of the Plan B One-Step morning-after pill and were made "to sugarcoat" the government's appeal.
Reluctant to get drawn into a messy second-term spat over social issues, officials in President Barack Obama's White House have argued that the FDA and the Department of Justice were acting independently of the White House in deciding how to proceed.


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Obama Rodeo Clown Could Have Done It Better [VIDEO]
The recent performance at the Missouri State Fair in which a clown donned a mask of President Obama is skirting the boundary of the normal shtick associated with the rodeo. It might have been entertaining if done right. One example could have used the element of danger to say, "Don't worry. I've got health insurance." "The NSA is watching." "Hush. The Secret Service doesn't know I'm here." Even wearing a Joe Biden mask would have been less abrasive. This joker says "Soon as this bull comes out Obama don't you move. He's gonna getcha, getcha, getcha," which gets you thrown into the Book of Infamy and banned from the fair.
Protection is the paramount role for the rodeo clown or in some circles bullfighter. Riding bulls carries an intense amount of danger as a cowboy sits atop a 2000-pound animal and attempts to stay on for 8 seconds. The rider's dismount in many cases is awkward. The athletic clown/bullfighter is skilled in both attracting and evading the bull. That gives the cowboy precious seconds to gather himself and exit the arena.
Safety is primary. Comedy is secondary, especially when you need a 30-foot ladder to reach amateur night status. Now the rodeo clown is facing down the press, Missouri legislators and the Missouri State Fair Board and that's no bull.


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"Function sections" is a technique for reducing the size of the kernel image. It does this by placing each function into its own linker section, which then allows the linker to do better dead code removal.
Denys reported that usage of this technique got him about a 10% reduction in kernel size.
Theory of operation
Denys Vlasenko wrote:
-ffunction-sections instructs gcc to place each function (including static ones) in its own section named .text.function_name instead of placing all functions in one big .text section.
At link time, ld normally coalesces all such sections into one output section .text again. It is achieved by having *(.text.*) spec along with *(.text) spec in built-in linker scripts.
However, if ld is invoked with the option --gc-sections, it tracks references, starting from the entry point and marks all input sections which are reachable from there. Then it discards all input sections which are not marked.
This doesn't buy much if you have one big .text section per .o module, because even one referenced function will pull in entire section. However, if you use -ffunction-sections to split .text into per-function sections it makes --gc-sections much more useful.
-fdata-sections is analogous: it places each global or static variable into .data.variable_name, .rodata.variable_name or .bss.variable_name.
Denys submitted patches in July 2008 to make the kernel compilable using "gcc -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections". See http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/7/1/499


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A collection of scholarly works about individual liberty and free markets. A project of Liberty Fund, Inc.
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